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Kurt Volker was U.S. ambassador to NATO from July 2008 to May 2009.
He is executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University
and a senior adviser to the Atlantic Council of the United States.

Open access link to Op-Ed page. Kurt Volker was U.S. ambassador to NATO from July 2008 to May 2009.
He is executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University
and a senior adviser to the Atlantic Council of the United States.

"Civilians are being 'terrorised' 24 hours a day by CIA drone attacks
that target mainly low-level militants in north-west Pakistan, a U.S. report says.
Rescuers treating the casualties are also being killed and wounded by follow-up strikes,
says the report by Stanford and New York Universities."

"The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”

"As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy."

"The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere...."

Coghlan, Any and Debora MacKenzie, "The Hard Core of Power," New Scientist, October 22, 2011, from Academic Search Complete database.